PM Tony Abbott is in Papua New Guinea for the annual Pacific Islands Forum, joining 15 other leaders from around the region in Port Moresby. Serious issues including climate change and refugees are on the agenda, but Abbott found a bit of time for some fun.

PM Abbott participated in the rooster fight and face slap drills with the Paga Panthers rugby league team in PNG pic.twitter.com/fq6Km1Bnaz

In fact, it seems the only ones having more fun than our PM are the troupe of photojournalists are following Abbott as he goes about his activities in PNG. Abbott was greeted with a traditional welcome and lei:

While it has been fun and games so far, the real business is much more serious. The smaller nations in the Pacific are asking Australia and New Zealand for bigger commitments on climate change, with fears some of the low-lying islands will be drowned under rising sea levels.

"I think they need to come to the party, if they really are our friends then they should be looking after our future as well," Kiribati's president Anote Tong said earlier this week.

"What we are talking about is survival, it's not about economic development... it's not politics, it's survival."